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I would classify 1997-99 as an era that really had no identity. It was a bunch of one-hit (or two-hit) wonders from every genre imaginable.
Lit, Fastball, Praz & Mya, Sixpence None the Richer, 702, Eagle Eye Cherry, 98 Degrees, O-Town, Lonestar, Lou Bega, Tal Bachman, Harvey Danger, Next, Savage Garden, Paula Cole, K-Ci and Jo-Jo, LeAnn Rimes, Marcy Playground, Five, All Saints, Jewel, Toni Braxton, Mark Morrison, Hanson, Meredith Brooks, Keith Sweat, Duncan Sheik, Robyn, Sister Hazel, Freak Nasty, Shawn Colvin
I can't think of anything great any of the above did outside of the 1997-99 range.
Harvey Danger should have been banished forever to the top of a flagpole.
Savage Garden wanted to go to the moon and back. Well, leave them on the moon.
LeAnn Rimes liked singing about moonlight.
Sixpence None the Richer asked me to kiss them. I said get lost.
Shawn Colvin wanted Sonny to come home. I don't know who Sonny was. I stopped caring.
Meredith Brooks. Well, she was just a female dog.
I agree. They should all have been put in a spaceship and sent to Mars.
I like variety and this decade don't have a whole lot of diversity in genres as it is really just indie, EPM or R&B (no rap is really making a dent anymore) and even has silly viral videos as "hits." Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake should by no means be #1 hits.
For pop music...we've been in the worst era since maybe the mid 80s.
Good hip-hop was hard to find in the mid 2000s, but is seeing some improvement
Alternative rock was awesome in the 80s and early 90s (R.E.M, Pixies, etc.) but has become something entirely different with all these twee hipster ensembles that hash out really bland impersonations of morrisey.
After look through hot 100 billboard charts, the worst decade was probably the 2000s though, I think the worst period for music was the late 90s through about 2007. I couldn't stand the boy bands, teen pop and Nu metal in the late 90s, I swear the music was aimed at 9 year olds at the time then, we got clogged up by bad hip hop starting in 2003/04. The mid 90s weren't great either, most of the top 100 songs were just Hip Hop and R&B with little sprinkles of rock here and there.
It's funny that everyone focuses on the pop charts, when the most interesting activity in the music industry in the last 20 years is decentralization. The Internet & better recording software makes it cheaper and easier to distribute music with good production quality. Industry legacy keeps the pop charts dominated by a few major label stars, but there is an immense variety of truly interesting music available to the listener willing to look beyond the charts.
As a result, the 2000s & 2010s are my favorite decades of music. We have tremendous innovation in electronic music & a dizzying array of genre fusions. It's a really exciting time--the most exciting since a few budding musicians in New York City started scratching records.
This and the previous decade.
Rappers with no discernable skills,musical or otherwise. Vocalists who cant sing and hide behind digital processing and autotune. Processed spoken word statements looped repeatedly over non-human instrumentations. Too few solos.
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